You'll probably see and hear it a lot when you start house hunting: "the house is in escrow." But no one really tells you what that means until you get an accepted contract on a house. 

In real estate, an escrow account is a secure …

There are a lot of fees that come that with buying or selling a home, including paying the Real Estate Agents involved in the transaction. Agents are paid commission on the sales that they are a part of, but who does the money actually come from? A lot people think …